History Manga / HaruWoDaiteita

* IntimatePsychotherapy: Towards the beginning of the series when Iwaki is on the verge of a breakdown over his acting career, Katou offers to have sex with him to help make him feel better. Iwaki accepts, and the sex ''does'' help calm Iwaki's emotions and helps him come to a better understanding of Katou as a person. On Katou's end, the sex helps him work though his growing feelings of love for Iwaki.

As of July 2010, all 14 volumes of the manga are available for Kindle by Animate USA.

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:At the beginning of the series Iwaki is under extreme stress from the threat of Katou's success in his own career, and Katou's frequent taunts about Iwaki's age and lack of career advancements don't help matters. Later flashbacks shown from Katou's perspective, however, revealed that Katou's taunting of Iwaki and his own drive for success were fueled because in the past Katou had extended a hand of genuine friendship to Iwaki and instead received a rather scathing ReasonYouSuckSpeech.]]

* IntimatePsychotherapy: Towards the beginning of the series when Iwaki is on the verge of a breakdown over his acting career, Katou offers to have sex with him to help make him feel better. Iwaki accepts, and the sex ''does'' help calm Iwaki’s emotions and come to a better understanding of Katou as a person. On Katou’s end, the sex helps him work though his growing feelings of love for Iwaki.

* TheThingThatGoesDoink: In the second OVA.

** In-universe, Anime/WinterCicada is a real story written by the great-granddaughter of Kusaka's nurse Ito based on her great-grandmother's memoirs. This further ties into the plot [[spoiler: as it's hinted that both Katou and Iwaki are the reincarnations of Kusaka and Akizuki respectively]].

* [[spoiler: LaserGuidedKarma: At the beginning of the series Iwaki is under extreme stress from the threat of Katou's success in his own career, and Katou's frequent taunts about Iwaki's age and lack of career advancements don't help matters. Later flashbacks shown from Katou's perspective, however, revealed that Katou's taunting of Iwaki and his own drive for success were fueled because in the past Katou had extended a hand of genuine friendship to Iwaki and instead received a rather scathing ReasonYouSuckSpeech.]]

* BigScrewedUpFamily: Arguably Sawa and his family. Due to family pressure he was initially a very repressed person, so his realization of his cross-dressing tendencies hit him ''extremely'' hard. Not to mention his sister was brutally murdered by her husband, something that his nephew Yukihito witnessed which made him mute out of shock. Made even squickier when Sawa officially adopts Yukihito and starts a ''sexual relationship'' with him.

* CrossOver: With ''Casino Lily'', another of Youka Nitta's works. Carlo and Magira appear in Volume 6, when Iwaki and Katou travelled to Los Angeles.

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Iwaki gets this ''constantly'' by both men who are essentially straight, and by gay men. This, of course, causes Katou to be very paranoid about every guy he meets, and sends him into CrazyJealousGuy mode more than once (although admittedly he gets a lot better as time goes on)

* JerkAss: Iwaki's brother, Masahiko. He and Iwaki's mother was ''dying'' and he felt that ringing Iwaki's agent when he changed his home phone number was un-warranted and he didn't deserve to be told.
* [[spoiler: LaserGuidedKarma: At the beginning of the series Iwaki is under extreme stress from the threat of Katou's success on his own career, and Katou's frequent taunts about Iwaki's age and lack of career advancements don't help matters. Later flashbacks shown from Katou's perspective, however, revealed that Katou's taunting of Iwaki and his own drive for success were fueled because in the past Katou had extended a hand of genuine friendship to Iwaki and instead received a rather scathing ReasonYouSuckSpeech.]]

* {{Paparazzi}}: Urushizake, who admires and follows Katou just about everwhere.
* PornWithPlot: Given the profession of the two main characters, the manga is fairly explicit. The storyline is engaging, though, and works well even in the much tamer OVA's.

* ShowWithinAShow: One of the subplots circles around both Katou and Iwaki on the same movie set. The movie 'Anime/WinterCicada'' became a separate series of three OVA's by the same mangaka.

* TabloidMelodrama: There are situations in both the manga and OVA's where paparazzi, tabloids, and talk shows affect the main characters, both positively and adversely.

* WriteWhoYouKnow and WriteWhatYouKnow: An in-universe example. Nagisa Sawa likes to use first-hand experience in his novels and movies. Hence why he decided to use actual AV actors in his first movie, and why his second book literally has an entire conversation that he had with Katou in it word for word. Considering it centred around Katou's feelings for Iwaki, Katou wasn't happy.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: quite a few times in-universe where something happens to change the way a film or tv-show the two protagonists are in develops, and how the actors and crew have to adapt to it (includes a couple of cases of AbsenteeActor, ThrowItIn, EnforcedMethodActing and RealitySubtext).

''Haru wo Daiteita'' is a BoysLove serialization in fourteen volumes of manga and two OVA's as well as a [[Anime/WinterCicada spin-off series]] of three OVA's, written by mangaka Youka Nitta.

''HaruWoDaiteita'' is a BoysLove serialization in fourteen volumes of manga and two OVA's as well as a [[Anime/WinterCicada spin-off series]] of three OVA's, written by mangaka Youka Nitta.

''HaruWoDaiteita'' is a BoysLove serialization in fourteen volumes of manga and two OVA's as well as a [[WinterCicada spin-off series]] of three OVA's, written by mangaka Youka Nitta.

** In-universe, WinterCicada is a real story written by the great-granddaughter of Kusaka's nurse Ito based on her great-grandmother's memoirs. This further ties into the plot [[spoiler: as it's hinted that both Katou and Iwaki are the reincarnations of Kusaka and Akizuki respectively]].
* ReplacementScrappy: In-universe. While filming ''WinterCicada'', Asano is brought in to replace Yoshizumi as Aizawa after Yoshizumi is seriously injured. Because Yoshizumi was respected by the crew and close friends with Katou and Iwaki--and because both Katou and Iwaki have a tense history with Asano--Asano finds most everyone is incredibly ''slow'' to warm up to him.
* ShowWithinAShow: One of the subplots circles around both Katou and Iwaki on the same movie set. The movie ''WinterCicada'' became a separate series of three OVA's by the same mangaka.

* BoysLoveGenre: somewhat unusual in that it tends to subvert the Uke/Seme relationship and is ''somewhat'' more hard-lined/realistic in its depiction of men in gay relationships.

* ReplacementScrappy: Invoked in-universe. While filming ''WinterCicada'', Asano is brought in to replace Yoshizumi as Aizawa after Yoshizumi is seriously injured. Because Yoshizumi was respected by the crew and close friends with Katou and Iwaki--and because both Katou and Iwaki have a tense history with Asano--Asano finds most everyone is incredibly ''slow'' to warm up to him.

* RapeIsLove: harshly inverted and deconstructed. Miyasaka [[spoiler: keeps saying that he's in love with Iwaki, who keeps turning him down in the nicest way possible. Then he attempts to rape him, from which Iwaki deduces that the only feeling he ever held for him was physical lust, arguing that if you honestly like someone it should be impossible for you to even ''try'' to rape them.]]

* [[spoiler: LaserGuidedKarma: At the beginning of the series Iwaki is under extreme stress from the threat of Katou's success on his own career, and Katou's frequent taunts about Iwaki's age lack of career advancements. Later flashbacks shown from Katou's perspective, however, revealed that Katou's taunting of Iwaki and his own drive for success were fueled because in the past Katou had extended a hand of genuine friendship to Iwaki and instead received a rather scathing ReasonYouSuckSpeech.]]

* CrossOver: With ''Casino Lily'', another of Youka Nitta's works. Carlo and Magiro appear in Volume 6, when Iwaki and Katou travelled to Los Angeles.

** In-universe, WinterCicada is a real story and Kusaka and Akizuki lived in the past. This further ties into the plot [[spoiler: as it's hinted that both Katou and Iwaki are their reincarnations]].

** Katou doesn't help matters when he [[spoiler: correctly]] assumes that using the media to sell Iwaki and himself as a couple would elevate their status.

* PlotWithPorn: Given the profession of the two main characters, the manga is fairly explicit. The storyline is engaging, though, and works well even in the much tamer OVA's.

* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Iwaki gets this ''constantly'' by both men who are essentially straight, and by gay men. This, of course, causes Katou to be very paranoid about every guy he meets, and sends him into CrazyJealousGuy mode more than once (although admittedly [[HeGotBetter he gets a lot better]] as time goes on)

* BoysLove: somewhat unusual in that it tends to subvert the Uke/Seme relationship and is ''somewhat'' more hard-lined/realistic in its depiction of men in gay relationships.

* DroppedABridgetOnHim: Katou and Iwaki initially mistake Sawa for a woman. Katou figures out that he's not, but Iwaki only realises when Sawa tells him... [[DidNotSeeThatComing he's pretty shocked, to say the least.]]